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PARLIA 31E T, ROUSE O LORDS, IVroNesDAy, FEB. 25. lie House proceeded in Appeals. Ilai.vorth, from the Exchtquer, presented An ArC,AIIII ul EXHlCliiit'r itiitiedi And Mr. Maitland, front the List India House, the Ile grilations of the Governments in India.—Ordered to lir on the table ; the former to . be priEted 'jr. Gilbett rind others, Membeis of the I-Innse of Conimons, bt might Mussage, desHng the Ita‘e of !he Honse for the artendaLce of Lord Viscriinit Mel% We on Friday, to give evidence be fore the Committee of the Public Income Lind txpcndittire. Lend Viscount Melville being present,irand con senting, leave was given, and the Alessengers of the Commons %vete cal!ed in And informed that his Lordship .would attend. The Cleri villen Officiating in Gaols' Bill ‘VRS brought up front the Home of Commons by Mr. Methuen, and rt ad a first time. Earl furzwlLLlAm presented a petitiom from the Master Chimney-stvetpers of the Metropoiis kgairiot the Chimtierswerpers' Regulation Bill, praying to be beard by themselves, their Cnutisel, or Agents. Ordered to lie ►►pon the table till the second reading Ot the Bill, then to be taken into consi derati.n. Eat! GROSVENUIR presented a petition from Tho mas Evans, of Newcastle -street, Strand, Com- Idaiiiing of arbitrity imprisonment and brush treatnicnt.—Ordered to lie upset the table. The Earl of LAUDERDALE presented a Petition from the Burgesses of Wigton, Sco:l,ind, com plaining of the present Sett or Constitution of ti;at Burgh. ills I., , rdship stated, that in pre senting the,Petition, he did not eivdge himself to Any opinion upon the subject to which it t der red.—The Petition was ordered to lie upon the table. On the motion of Lord AucKLAND, the Report of the Committee of the House ut Commons, re specting Chimney-sweepers (sent up in conse qnence of a Message movcd by his Lordship), was ordered to be printed. BILL OF INDEMNITY. The Duke of I\loNTßose presented a Bill, Which Lis Grace denominated as commonly called a Bill of Indemnity, founded urin the Report of the Secret Committee. He iutimiteo that he should now ThOVe that the Bill he read- a first time, and printed ; and that it was intended to move the second readilig on Friday, to which day he pro posed to postpone his observations upon the na ture cut tl.e measure. The Larl nt LA‘:TDERDALE did not ‘risil to anti cipate the Debate upon this Bill, but there were some considerations connected with it dust he felt it his duty to press now upon the attention of their I., , rdships. This Bill was founded upon the Report of the Secret Committee of their Lord ship,' House, and was evidently intended to in againSt the consequences of their acts under the Suspension Acts, and thereby to approve of Breit conduct. lint the same acts Were wilso under the consideration of a Secret Cystimittee of the House of Commons, of Whose proceeilings they kiiew nothing,— That Committee might snake a Itep o it altoge ther disapproving of the .conduet of Ministers ; and if was possible that an Itipeaehmtint by the House of the Nobie Secretary of State might follow. In wh a t light could the proceedines of their Lordships be in that case viewed ? After formisily expressing their appiobvtion of the con duct of :ilinisters, they might he called upon by sin luipeachtnent from the House of Contmo,)s at their Bar, to try the Noble Secretary of State in theirjunitiaLcapaeity, and what reliance conlu the" public then place upon their itupuitiality ? It was surely therefore ill-'lined to It.ring its such a Bill at the present monsent, when they were civil ely ig 'mimic of what coutSe the COILIIIIMIS Ilzv4lll to pursue.._ The Earl of Lti:F.nPoot, was of opinion, that it the objection of the Noble Lord WAS Avorth any thing, it equally applied to the appointment of the secret Committee, tor that might be.said, upoo the same ground, to be prejudging the case. Fife, however, could not. allow that there was the slightest force in the objection, their Lordships had an undoubted right to institute what Legisla tive ptoreediog they thought most advisable. As to the Commons dithering by possibility in opi nion, if that were the case, and their Lordships sent down to them a B:llot Indemnity, they would, Of course, evillee that difference of opinion by re jectiog the Bill. lie could not, therefore, this cover any force in the objection of the Noble ' Lord ; a Bill of this nature originating in the House of Lords, was certainly not without prece dent, as in the case of Ireland a Bill of a similar description was originated in the House of .Lords, and was tilt imately passed into a law• Lord IiaLLAND said, the Noble Earl bad an swered the obirc• ions of his Noble Friend by over stating them. His Noble Friend had not denied the right of the House to legislate, but had ob je..:ted, on the grounds of propriety and•prndenee, to their attempting to institute, under present circumstances, any legislative measure. For any thing their' Lordships knew to the contrary,- at ticks of impeachment against the Noble Sect e tary of State might be now upon the Table of the House of Commons, and it this 13.11 was sanction e I by the House, what- impression would he pro duced in the public mind, if their Lordships were afterwards called upon to try such au impeach ment in their judicial capacity ?• It was in this point of c iew his Noble Friend put the case, and in this view he also concurred. He .did not Mean to anticipate any discussion on the Lin, o f which, indeed, the House knew- nothing. The Noble Duke wit() had introduced it bad not explaintr.d its provisions, but had contented him self wiih stating, that it was commonly called a Bill of Indemnity, though it was diflicult to con ceive in what way a Bill for the first time intro dured to —the House could be commonly called Uy any title. The Nobl-.1 . Earl, however, had re lented to a precedent—wind to what precedent ? that of the House of Lord's in Ireland, in 1798 ; anwhich had ,been publicly condemned by the Bench, and which, by many persons, was thought to have reflected the most indelible dis grace upon the Parliament of Ireland. Were they then to understand that the provisions of that ob noxious /let were transferred to the present, bill ?—he trusted that was not the case. lie thon l bt, however, it was incumbent upon their Lordships, before they signified any approbation of this measure, at least to wait till they knew %%liar coarse wra! , adopted by the house at Corn.- r;ions u r yni the Report of their Secret Committee. The Duke of MONTR Qs': contended, that the argument which hail been used against proceed ing in the present Bill would apply equally at all times, and must neee , sarilv tend to &wive their LortYlips of all their legislative functions. It night he said, during ihe whole of the present :hat they might to wait to see what steps the Ilonse of Commons would take, and thei, the next Session, the argot-neat tlould equally apply. Their Lordships would thns he corapletely de prived of all the power of any legislative measure. Ile therefore was of opinion, that the Bill ought to be proceeded in, as originally proposed. Lord flo.t.tAtin moved, that instead of the word " now " for the first reading, the words " this day se'nnight " he inserted. The question was put, that the word " now " stand !ot of the question, which was carried in the asirmatire.• Itte Bill was read a first time, and ordered to he printed. ' The Earl flf favrnPoriL expressed his iyillingness to postpone the , second reading till Montd•ay. • -Toe,day was cAled for ►►n tile opposite side— to which the Earl of Liverpool (;11i pet ed, on the grmimi that it would delay the 13111 to too late a period. After ',some conversation respecting the day, it was at length agreed that the second reAding should stand, ;-;s otiginally l►rol►o ~ e(;, for Friday; the Larl of Liverpool staling, that he had no' ohjee tioo to i,astpot►e the next stage of the Bill till Tuesday. The Bill was ordered to he read a second time On Friday—the Lords to be summoned.—Ad jonrned till Friday. 'V For the Proreedirrgs in the House of Commons, see the Last Page LI !MARY REVIEW. THE DRAGON KNIGHT: a Poem, in Twelve Cantos. By Sir J.cnEs BLvN'n BURGES, Bart.—Printed for LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, and Bnows. \Ve have to announce a poetical Romance from the pen of Sir .1 AMES BLAND BUIIGES, a Gentleman well known . in the Republic of Letters rot' many works of acknowledged taste,learning, and genius, not only of a poetical description, but for others of legal research and profundity. This Gentleman also manifested his political acumen and integrity in an active and able support of the system and measures of our great departed Statesman, the illustrious PITT, during the early periods-of the French Revolution, which threatened to diffuse universally such doctrines as were calculated to overthrow all the m.iin supports of regular Go vernment in every part of . Europe. The Drago7i Knight is a poem of considerable . length, abounding in incidents of a dramatic cast : - the fable, though complex, is gracefully unfolded. Of the general style and spnit of the versification, an adequate indginent may be forint(' from the following pas sa!2o-,, in which are ponrirayed t%lO female per sonages. opposed iti character as vice and virtue. Iphimedia is an ambitions Queen, a tyrannical Ustirpv7.. enslaved by her passions, and revelling in volupt,ous enjoyment : Hi h on livr sumPtuous throne, in royal state, By comities. crowned, with fiatt'ri+►g hope elate, Repos'dßithynia's Queen. llcr splendid board With all that luxury could cra►e was stor'd; The dulcet flute, the harp's enlivening note Her ear with harmony enchanting saute, While intermingling voices sweetly sung The charms of Bacchus ever fair andyouteg, Or her who, springing from the frothy main, O'er love and pleasure holds despotic reign. Zapheria is the sell-devoted 'victim of piety and love, her, passion is exalted to heroism, af fection ennobled ,by enthusiasm, and fortitude sanctified by religious resignation. No contrast cau be more sti She said.. Her eyes in holy rapture On heav'n, where lay her treasur'd hope, the gaz'd. On his loy'd ituage,•as repos'd her thought, Her speaking features its retleetion caught, A more than human grace her form assun►'d, A chaste and holy fire her eves She looted as4f, her painful ordeal o'er, She had already reach'd the blissful shore, ‘Vbere hopes and fears no longer pang the breast, But all is transport, certainty, and rest. We have, confined ourselves to these brief spe cimens of the Poetry, because we could not enter into the narrative parts without exciting curiosity, which we have not space to gratify, and therefore we must refer our Readers to the Work itself, assuring them, that it will throughout excite a strong and animated interest. As this Poem seems to form a new species, which may be stiied the DRAMATIC EPIC, the Ithor has prefixed a list of persons, with their names and designations, usual in histrionic com positions. The work is dedicated, ‘rith elegant brevity, to the Countess of CHARLEVILLS. OLD BAILUY —NO ttikti ut general interev took prate ytsterday. THE CATHOLIC CLAIMS. FOlt THE SUN. ADDRESS AND APPEAL OF THE ROMAN CATHO LICS OF IRELAND TO Trim PROTESTANT BRE THREN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF„ GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. LETTER XI. • [Concluded from yesterday's SvN.l It was 'proffered, and might have been- accepted! What would have been the consequence ? IVhether the rash intemperance Of Dr. DuemGooLa still might have impelled him to let the secret out— whether he would have been satisfied that the Lay Romanist should have taken the oath, which the Romanist Ecclesiastic could not be " so lost and abandoned to take," and thus have obtained offices of Power and Trust—whilst the Church remained -exclusive in their allegiance to Rome, I am not sufficiently a casuist to determine, but we have a fact connected with this question which leaves no doubt as to the insecurity of any oath given as a public pledge from the spiritual Subjects of Rome to the temporal Government of Protestants.— rhis very oath, proffered and brought for ward by the Roman Catholic AdvoCates, was referred as part of this very Relief Bill, and dis cussed AT ROME, and it was THERR declared " in a lull Council of the most learned Bishops and Divines, after having read the . letters from Dr. POINTER and from Dr. TROY (the Romish Arch bishop of Dublin), and the matter being duly considered in a Meeting convened for the express purpose, it was DECREED that the Catholics should receive with GRATITUDE the Law which was pro posed in the year preceding."—(See the Rescript of M. QUARANTOTTE) 'Without referring at present to Dr. Daum . GOOLE - (whom, however, we must not yet finally dismiss), we may suppose that, upon such nicit AUTHORITY, if all other objections had been ob viated in the views taken by the Legislature,' the question might hare been carried! A large.propor tion of the Romeo Catholics might have qualified themselves for office and fur seats. in Parliament, by taking the oath thus. sanctioned by a Roman Council. What would such men have done %viten a few months afterwards, in consequence of A MisstoN'from the Irish. Roman Catholic Priest hood, this Council at Rome, held under THE POPE, and , ALL THE CARDINALS,- did actually " SET ASIDE this proposed Bill, (which on the same aut., thority.bad been decreed to be received with gra titude) and Cardinal ALBEA, the President of the 'Propaganda, expressed himself IN UNQUALIFIED TEEMS OF ABHORRENCE OF THE OATH AND SOME OF THE CLAUSES of the late Bill."---(See Dublitr Evening Post, the Roman Catholic Official Jour nal, Aug. IS, 1814.) Would those who had taken the oath have ad hered to it, in the face of this judgment i Would - they have dared,to do it ? Were they not ipso facto • absolved from it t Would they, who are bound to the Papal Decrees, as " TO THE ORAL TESTIMONY OF GOD HIMSELF," have • dared to resist the Church ? It they were absolved however, (it may he said) from the: effect of their oath, the adroit tages.granted to them - in consequence by. the Go vernment, would, of course, be resumed—and matters would remain.upon their old lowing I It may be so—but the resumption of privileges, on the part of Goveinment, is not a very popular measure- at. any time, and it, no period of our History would it more prepbAly have led to evil conseqnences, than at the moment to which we icier. This is, however, but a narrow view of the subject With the experience of the character of Romish Councils, .we may fairly be led to doubt, whe ther, in the event of the Bill haring been CARRIED, any such open violation of consistency, as the reversal of • their own Decree would ever have been-made PUBLIC,—We have only . access to these Secret /Ifisions - of .the Popißll Clergy to the Court of Rome through the partial information of their own Official Press ; and the arraying the Vatican Conclave against the Legislature of Great B r i ! ,- i i„ might have been rejected as i mpolilic haul the Ro man Catholics been gratified, under auy circum- stances, BY A PULL CONCESSION OF THEIR CLAIMS. At all events, this peat and important Truth is brought to light and confirmed, that the Court of Rome has the power, and continues to exercise the power, of sanctioning or annulling at will, and ac cording to its political bearings upon the interests of its Church, the validity of an Oath, and that In dulgencies are granted, as plenary, and, as • in the days of LEO X. is admitted by the Expositor and Defender of the present Roman Catholic Faith. We must not imagine that in the course of one year the Vatican Council decreed that the pro posed terms of Legislative Relief to the Roman Catholics should be received with gratitude, and subsequently, that they Should he rejected with abhorrence, iron the simple merits of the case.— No, Sir, the motive lies ()inn to our view, from the extraordinary disclosures of imprudent and in temperate men, who, considering the game in their hand, no longer restrained the expression of their triumph and their hopes ! The Bill was, in the secotid instance, acCompa 'lied 'by a solemn Mission of Right Reverend Priests to the Coaveil at lions, who represented tha i t " it' was preenant wilt incalculable mischief to the CAUSE OF CATH.LICITY ttl I RELAND !.' awl, upon thiSrepresemation, it was rejected with abhor rence, after it had been received with gratitude. The. Moor Cardinals wcte not such subtile Poidiciurq as their Priestly Coadjutors in Ireland ; they,saw obvious advantage, and hailed its approach will gratitude, but after they had been enlightened through the official commUnication of the Niission, and had leai'ned by heart almost the whole of a FALSE, SEDITIOUS, awl :MALICIOUS LIBEL (SO re. corded by a Jury of Irishmen) against the Kingly, Government and Contirtition of Ireland, their eyes were opeeed, and THE OATH was rejected with abhorrence Now, Sir, !et us see how THIS OATH, would have operated against the Cause of CATHO LICITY in IRELAND. We will first transcribe a shOrt Extract from this Libel, which was pro ductive of so powerful effect upon the conviction of Cardinal At -BRA, " conned his lesson o'er" till he had it by heart. After stating the existence in full force of all the Penal Laws which had become a dead Letter, or were abroated repeated Conces sions to the Roman Catholics, the author represents that Body as possessing such powers and advan tages as would enable them to make the attempt to pull down the Protestant Church and the Esta blished Government by force. In the usual mode observed by all the Roman Catholic writers and speahers, and by their supporters, their numbers are grossly exaggerated, and they ate emphati cally called " THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND."—He then states, " that they occupy the most valu able POSITIONS, whether for commercial or NMI-. TARY purposes ; the boldest COASTS, the most navigable rivers, and the most TENABLE PASSES ; the most fertile districts, the readiest supplies of FORAGE, the readiest means of ATTACK and DE YENCE."—Now-then let us see how this formida• ble array of means is to be employed, should that portion of POWER he granted which is NOW ALoNfi WANTINO to bring them into Play !—We have be.. fore seen something of Dr. DEUMGOOLR, we Witt again refer to him as the readiest INFORMER Ht hand. He has already declared, in the Meeting of the Irish Roman Catholic Board of Deceinbec 1813, that the Irish Priesthood could " never he so lost and abandoned as to take. THE OATH, NOT to seek directly or indirectly THE SUBVERSION OF THr: PROTESTANT CHURCH," and this he himself glories in stating (in a subsequent speech) was received with " marks of enthusiastic approba tion." In the same speech, the Doctor, speaking of the Church of England, said, " IT SHALL FALL, and nothing but the memqry of the mischiefs it has created shall stirvioe! ! !" In a subsequent speech Ire repeats this, and adds, that not only such was his belief, " but, the belief of every Catholic in the world." He boasted (says the Author of The Dan gers, &c.) amidSt the zealous cheering of the Assem bly, that si•the solid columns of CATHOLICITY were collecting against the Established Church ; that they were to unfurl tlie . Auriflontilte and-dis play its glorious motto; that THEY CHALLENGED -THE POSSESSION OP THE ARK," in other words the surrender of the Protestant Cllt,reh in Ireland, and the National Establishment of • PoPERY in its place 1--Nord, Sir, let yOur readers digest this thoroughly, and make diligent inquiry itito the troth and authewicily of these facts. It is the test to which I appeal ! Let them then recollect what is THE CAUSE OF CATHOLICITY, which in duced the Counsellors of the infallible Head of the Chereh of Rome to reverse their own decree; and further, let them undersaud that the oven declaration just cited conies from a great Leader, who has been publicly acknowledged to be " THE MosT POPULAR MAN IN IRELAND, and wHosg OPINIONS ARE IRisH AND CATHOLIC." LANFRANC. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Letter from 'DESERVER, Bristol, shall be inserted as soots as we have opportunity. We shall be glad to bear from AN OLD BARRISTER kik any shape. LOTTERY DRAWS NEXT WEDNESDAY—THREE PRIZES OF ,C.3o,ooo—ONE HUNDRED CAPITALS — TWELVE• PIPES OF PORT. TFIEATRICAL REGISTER. Dnuity-LANE.—AN ORATORIO. - COVENT-GA RDEN.7NOI'-ERFORMANCV. MAILS. ARRIVED-1 Dublin, t Waterford. DI/E-1 Guernsey and Jersey, 1 Guttetibtirgh, 1 France,-2 Hamburg-11. PRICE OF STOCKS •7413 I , AY AT rwßi.,va o'cLocx. 3 per C:qit.Red 30; n I Imperial 3 per Cent. Ann. 70 3 per Cent. 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